Antonyms for mire
maɪərmire

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1. • Involve
   • Mud

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1. mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slacknoun

   a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

   Synonyms:
   quag, slackness, falloff, slop, slack, falling off, slack water, morass, slump, drop-off, quagmire

2. slop, mirenoun

   deep soft mud in water or slush

   "they waded through the slop"

   Synonyms:
   glop, swill, treacle, slops, slack, morass, quag, slop, quagmire, pigswill, pigwash, mush

3. mireverb

   a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from

   "the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president"; "caught in the mire of poverty"

   Synonyms:
   quag, morass, slop, slack, quagmire

4. entangle, mireverb

   entrap

   "Our people should not be mired in the past"

   Synonyms:
   mat, muck, mud, muck up, tangle, entangle, grind to a halt, get stuck, snarl, bog down

5. mire, bog downverb

   cause to get stuck as if in a mire

   "The mud mired our cart"

   Synonyms:
   bog down, muck, mud, entangle, grind to a halt, get stuck, bog, muck up

6. grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down, mireverb

   be unable to move further

   "The car bogged down in the sand"

   Synonyms:
   bog down, muck, bog, entangle, grind to a halt, get stuck, mud, muck up

7. mire, muck, mud, muck upverb

   soil with mud, muck, or mire

   "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"

   Synonyms:
   entangle, spoil, bobble, bungle, bollocks, fluff, muck, bollix, mishandle, bollocks up, screw up, foul up, louse up, bodge, flub, grind to a halt, fumble, botch up, bog down, ball up, get stuck, mess up, blow, bollix up, botch, manure, muck up, bumble, mud, muff

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1. mirenoun

   Synonyms:
   slough, ooze, mud, slime

How to use mire in a sentence?

1. Raul E. Sanchez:

   Mire Hacia Las Estrellas. Look At The Stars.

2. Douglas Adams, The Guardian:

   The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second-rate technology, who led them into it in the first place.

3. Vincent Van Gogh:

   Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.”

4. Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre:

   This started about midnight in Livingston Parish ' where this Matthew Mire shot two people. Then he traveled over to Ascension Parish where he shot two more. One succumbed to her injuries.

5. Charles A. Beard:

   I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.

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